What the corpus says about Fighting with My Family (2019)

The 41 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (19)

  1. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Leave No Trace ↔ Fighting with My Family · programming · Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family. · "That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family."
  2. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:24:09 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · lineage · Merchant says the documentary had a Rocky style underdog story at its core. · "there was a sort of rocky style underdog story at the core of it"
  3. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street. · "those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?"
  4. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
  5. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 8 Mile ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it. · "The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film."
  6. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:29:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] The Office (TV series) ↔ Fighting with My Family · theme · Merchant says there is always a coming-of-age element in his work, whether the Office or this film. · "whether it's the office or any of the other things are done, there's always a sort of coming of age element to it"
  7. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:30:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Hello Ladies (TV series) ↔ Fighting with My Family · theme · Merchant says his Hello Ladies character, like Paige and Brent, finally stops trying so hard. · "true of my Hello Lady's character"
  8. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Billy Elliot ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · theme · Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet. · "I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott."
  9. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Batman (Tim Burton) ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines. · "the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie"
  10. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast. · "They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes."
  11. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels. · "make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies"
  12. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied. · "a template in the sense that it really beds in character"
  13. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale. · "the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers."
  14. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:13:24 · David Shoemaker (0.85)] Ready to Rumble ↔ Fighting with My Family · contrast · Shoemaker says the Ready to Rumble/Arquette attempt failed because a wrestling movie must strike exactly the right tone, the test Fighting with My Family now faces. · "there's a reason why they're ready to rumble David Arquette thing was a failure, because you have to, you have to strike the exact right tone."
  15. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:41 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Leave No Trace · contrast · Merchant says Leave No Trace is heavy and Fighting with My Family could be the antidote or sorbet. · "There's a heaviness to leave no trace that perhaps we could be an antidote."
  16. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:28:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ The Office (TV series) · career · Fennessey says Paige is positioned not far from David Brent or Merchant's Hello Ladies character, with a presumed sense of accomplishment. · "not so far from David Brent or your character in Hello Ladies"
  17. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Ready to Rumble · industry · Fennessey frames Fighting with My Family as the first stroke of a more refined version of the movie-wrestling crossover that Ready to Rumble attempted. · "fighting with my family feels like the 1st stroke of maybe a slightly more refined vision of how movies and the pro wrestling world intersect."
  18. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · people · Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film. · "my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers"
  19. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:43:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Film4 ↔ Fighting with My Family · industry · Merchant says he developed the project from the ground up with Dwayne Johnson and Film4. · "I developed it with Dwayne and with film 4"

Films put beside it more than once (4)

  1. [pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Leave No Trace · said 2 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ The Office (TV series) · said 2 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Ready to Rumble · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (5)

  1. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:22:19 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Merchant's only wrestling exposure growing up was fat British wrestlers like Giant Haystacks. · "There was a guy called Giant Haystacks."
  2. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:25:10 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Wrestling summed up as soap opera in spandex, the line that made it click for Merchant. · "Someone described it as soap opera in spandex."
  3. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:26:22 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Merchant says WWE let him in like magicians: you have to win their trust. · "It was a little bit like I imagine if you spend time with magicians."
  4. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:26:37 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · WWE rule Merchant learned: say WWE, not the WWE. · "you should refer to it as WWE and not the WWE."
  5. [The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:39:15 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · The Staples Center scene was shot on day four with 20,000 fans after a Raw taping, with one hour allowed by WWE. · "The WWE had allowed us one hour to shoot a scene."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (8)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [speaker] Stephen Merchant · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · A former film critic with very broad taste, from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard, and loves Rocky (especially Rocky 2), musicals, and grittier-than-remembered classics like Saturday Night Fever. Admires craft and performance skill, and is wary of mocking subject matter. · stances: Wrestling was a late conversion; he came to respect the performance craft; Make it work for non-fans, like Rocky or Billy Elliot; Simplify the source rather than serve every fan; Success in one thing does not open every door
  2. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  3. [speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
  2. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Fighting with My Family (2019) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Fighting with My Family (2019) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Leave No Trace ↔ Fighting with My Family · programming · Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family. · "That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:24:09 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · lineage · Merchant says the documentary had a Rocky style underdog story at its core. · "there was a sort of rocky style underdog story at the core of it"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street. · "those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] 8 Mile ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it. · "The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:29:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] The Office (TV series) ↔ Fighting with My Family · theme · Merchant says there is always a coming-of-age element in his work, whether the Office or this film. · "whether it's the office or any of the other things are done, there's always a sort of coming of age element to it"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:30:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Hello Ladies (TV series) ↔ Fighting with My Family · theme · Merchant says his Hello Ladies character, like Paige and Brent, finally stops trying so hard. · "true of my Hello Lady's character"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Billy Elliot ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · theme · Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet. · "I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Batman (Tim Burton) ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines. · "the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast. · "They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels. · "make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied. · "a template in the sense that it really beds in character"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · craft · Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale. · "the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:13:24 · David Shoemaker (0.85)] Ready to Rumble ↔ Fighting with My Family · contrast · Shoemaker says the Ready to Rumble/Arquette attempt failed because a wrestling movie must strike exactly the right tone, the test Fighting with My Family now faces. · "there's a reason why they're ready to rumble David Arquette thing was a failure, because you have to, you have to strike the exact right tone."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:53:41 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Leave No Trace · contrast · Merchant says Leave No Trace is heavy and Fighting with My Family could be the antidote or sorbet. · "There's a heaviness to leave no trace that perhaps we could be an antidote."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:28:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ The Office (TV series) · career · Fennessey says Paige is positioned not far from David Brent or Merchant's Hello Ladies character, with a presumed sense of accomplishment. · "not so far from David Brent or your character in Hello Ladies"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Fighting with My Family ↔ Ready to Rumble · industry · Fennessey frames Fighting with My Family as the first stroke of a more refined version of the movie-wrestling crossover that Ready to Rumble attempted. · "fighting with my family feels like the 1st stroke of maybe a slightly more refined vision of how movies and the pro wrestling world intersect."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · people · Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film. · "my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers"
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:43:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Film4 ↔ Fighting with My Family · industry · Merchant says he developed the project from the ground up with Dwayne Johnson and Film4. · "I developed it with Dwayne and with film 4"
[pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Rocky · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Leave No Trace · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ The Office (TV series) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Fighting with My Family ↔ Ready to Rumble · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:22:19 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Merchant's only wrestling exposure growing up was fat British wrestlers like Giant Haystacks. · "There was a guy called Giant Haystacks."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:25:10 · Stephen Merchant (0.90)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Wrestling summed up as soap opera in spandex, the line that made it click for Merchant. · "Someone described it as soap opera in spandex."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:26:22 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · Merchant says WWE let him in like magicians: you have to win their trust. · "It was a little bit like I imagine if you spend time with magicians."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:26:37 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · WWE rule Merchant learned: say WWE, not the WWE. · "you should refer to it as WWE and not the WWE."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:39:15 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] Fighting with My Family · fun · The Staples Center scene was shot on day four with 20,000 fans after a Raw taping, with one hour allowed by WWE. · "The WWE had allowed us one hour to shoot a scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[speaker] Stephen Merchant · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · A former film critic with very broad taste, from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard, and loves Rocky (especially Rocky 2), musicals, and grittier-than-remembered classics like Saturday Night Fever. Admires craft and performance skill, and is wary of mocking subject matter. · stances: Wrestling was a late conversion; he came to respect the performance craft; Make it work for non-fans, like Rocky or Billy Elliot; Simplify the source rather than serve every fan; Success in one thing does not open every door
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Fighting with My Family (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Fighting with My Family (2019) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.